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Brush by Wilhelmina Wendt, 1935 (Photo Per-Åke Persson, Courtesy of Nationalmuseum)
Designer | 07.12.2015

smow blog compact: Women Pioneers – Swedish Design in Between the Wars @ Nationalmuseum Design, Stockholm

Horribly denigrating as the term "Swedish Grace" unquestionably sounds, it is a well meant phrase coined to refer to the classicist art and design movement that developed in Sweden in the 1920s and 30s: a movement which served as a bridge between the Art Nouveau-esque national romanticism of the early 20th century and the approaching functionalism, and which thus in many respects paved the way for the Scandinavian interpretation of international modernism as so magnificently presented at the

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